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authorJörg Thalheim <Mic92@users.noreply.github.com>2017-02-22 01:40:50 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-02-22 01:40:50 +0100
commit27d4f8c717ecdd57613f7566b63e94be20d335b6 (patch)
tree8852aa6f5887a3b22e61ab4e4a90656c6336a9a6 /nixos
parent6a044f184119b117c585df8c8a015f4dc4cb4bbc (diff)
parent0994d6af9d6eef9f2b8691423cd7ace255999e73 (diff)
Merge pull request #23046 from Zimmi48/patch-2
nixos/manual/networkmanager: add info on nm-applet
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos')
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/configuration/network-manager.xml6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/network-manager.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/network-manager.xml
index dafbcfcb1e5bd..b4808e74ff9df 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/network-manager.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/network-manager.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ users.extraUsers.youruser.extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" ];
 <para>NetworkManager is controlled using either <command>nmcli</command> or
 <command>nmtui</command> (curses-based terminal user interface). See their
 manual pages for details on their usage. Some desktop environments (GNOME, KDE)
-have their own configuration tools for NetworkManager.</para>
+have their own configuration tools for NetworkManager. On XFCE, there is no
+configuration tool for NetworkManager by default: by adding
+<code>networkmanagerapplet</code> to the list of system packages, the graphical
+applet will be installed and will launch automatically when XFCE is starting
+(and will show in the status tray).</para>
 
 <note><para><code>networking.networkmanager</code> and
 <code>networking.wireless</code> (WPA Supplicant) cannot be enabled at the same